4th Avenue Condos: The Next Generation?
Hot on the heels of news that the under-construction L-shaped condo on 4th Avenue between 6th and 7th streets is being branded the Argyle come intriguing images from Curbed that are supposed to represent a glassy building slated for 8th Street. We’re not certain which 4th Avenue parcel this bad boy’s meant to rise on—our…
Hot on the heels of news that the under-construction L-shaped condo on 4th Avenue between 6th and 7th streets is being branded the Argyle come intriguing images from Curbed that are supposed to represent a glassy building slated for 8th Street. We’re not certain which 4th Avenue parcel this bad boy’s meant to rise on—our best guess is 438 4th Avenue, a site where the DOB approved plans for a 12-story building in 2005 that were never realized—but, wow, doesn’t it look loads more interesting than most of the avenue’s other recentish developments? And is there movement on any other 4th Avenue sites, you ask? For sure. The DOB recently green-lighted the demolition of the old warehouse on 6th Street owned by Baruch Singer and Rosma Development, and it’s started to come down (see photo on jump). The developers’ plans to put a snazzy-looking Ten Arquitectos-designed condo on the site were sadly nixed, and there’s no word what’ll go up instead.
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Development Watch: No-Go on Norten/Singer Team-Up [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
12:50: Actually, I believe there has been talk about various “traffic calming” measures along 4th Avenue precisely to change it from a truck route to a safer, more pedestrian-friendly street. Of course, I’m not sure where the trucks would go then, other than onto the already overcrowded BQE and Gowanus Expressway.
Retail is important to keep the street lively with pedestrians, light and activity. The only thing that will fully transform 4th Ave from the highway it currently is – is pedestrian traffic, which requires retail.
Besides who would want to live ground floor-front on 4th Ave, economically for the health of the future owners – retail seems like a much better use of the space.
12:06 – “Brooklyn has done pretty ok for the last few hundred years with 4th ave as a shitshow, no?”
NO – Brooklyn has had tremendous problems over the last 100yrs most recently about 30yrs ago when there was wide consensus that NYC as a whole was finished (including Manhattan) and that there was no hope for a place like Brooklyn. It is only in the last decade or so that this conventional wisdom has finally been overcome.
I have no idea what role 4th Ave played in Brooklyn’s overall health – but certainly its improvement is necessary to continue the transformation of the Boro as a place for the future as well as one of the past instead of only the later.
I’d love to see Fourth Avenue improved. As for widening the median in order to do planting, how likely does it seem that the city would widen the medians and make traffic worse along this major truck route?
12:14: Better than Novo, definitely, but seeing as how this one might wind up a block from the Argyle…ugh. They look like cheesy doctor’s offices.
oh yeah…pretty ugly but i think it and this one are leaps and bounds better than novo or crest.
but i realize that’s not saying a whole lot.
12:04, right here:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/09/development_wat_124.php
and here:
http://gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/2007/10/fourth-avenues-argyle-is-it-park-slope.html
And also at the sales office on 5th. It’s seriously ugly.
why is that 11:59?
Because 4th Avenue is the heart of Brooklyn?
I can’t for the life of me imagine why a statement like…the better off Brooklyn will be would in any way shape or form have anything whatsoever to do with 4th avenue.
Brooklyn has done pretty ok for the last few hundred years with 4th ave as a shitshow, no?
I do agree that these improvements are welcome however.
where are renderings for the argyle?
i don’t believe they’ve even been released yet so i think your comment, 11:58 is null and void.